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BigOven Review

by Dennis Faas on May, 19 2005 at 08:05AM EDT

Synopsis: Easy, Award-Winning Recipe Software with 150,000+ recipes at your fingertips! BigOven recipe software is the easiest way for you to: organize your recipes, generate grocery lists to save shopping time, and discover great new dishes shared by other cooks around the world -- plus much, much more!

BigOven: Screenshots

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BigOven: Key Features

Makes everyday cooking easier

Access 150,000+ recipes instantly

Print, share, or post recipes online

Port recipes to your PALM and take it on the go

Enter your own family favorites

See ratings and comments from renowned cooks

Generate nutrition facts for any recipe

BigOven: Get Inspired

BigOven also gives you the ability to discover new flavors in fun ways -- like the "Leftover Wizard" -- which lets you enter any three ingredients, and instantly discover dozens of things you can make with them. Or the "Idea Wizard", which asks you three simple questions to help you get unstuck.

BigOven has been designed to work the way you prefer to work. Unlike other recipe software, BigOven doesn't force you down any particular path of planning or creating. You can fluidly change between views of recipes, shopping lists, meal plans, nutrition and even other websites whenever you want.

BigOven: Plan Ahead and Save Time and Money

With the integrated grocery list and meal calendar, you can plan days, months or weeks in advance, saving time and money. Best of all, the printed grocery list is grouped by major department, so no more back-tracking at the grocery store!

Grocery List: Simply drag and drop recipes from the left onto the shopping list window, and voila! Your shopping list is created in seconds. You can add any items you want to the shopping list, resize recipes, and indicate what you've already got on hand.

Meal Calendar: Drag and drop recipes onto BigOven's Outlook-style meal calendar, and you can plan out days, weeks, months... even years in advance. And you can search back to find recipes you may have made in the past and would like to try again. A simple click generates a shopping list for any date range you choose.

Collect and Organize: With easy Web importing, recipe ratings, pictures and notes, unlimited keywords and a zillion ways to search, the recipe you're looking for is always seconds away.

Add Pictures: You can browse for or paste .JPG pictures for any recipe. BigOven will automatically make a resized copy of them for easier viewing.

BigOven: Share with Friends, Family, and More

Post your favorite recipe with a single click to BigOven.com and share it with cooks around the world! You can return to edit or improve upon the recipe at any time. By sharing your recipe, you can get ratings and feedback on the recipe, even photos from other cooks!

BigOven: Purchase

BigOven has been awarded consecutive "5 out of 5 stars" awarded by many prestigious online sources and magazines, including: WugNet, Cool Site of the Day, OneKit.com, Tucows, Download.com and many more. BigOven costs $29.95 and comes with a full 30 day money back guarantee.